Recent Posts Tagged With 'discuss'

• So Many Books- At Once?

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 19:46 in reading list, discuss, guest posts, tbr pile, cheryl katz, many books at once

  My friend and fellow blogger, Cheryl Katz, is in the middle of tons of books, and wishes she could read faster. I wish I could simultaneously juggle several narrative books, but I tend to get confused between them.  Still, I get so anxious to start ...

• Poets and 19th century technology

  Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 23:05 in myspace, blogging, discuss, John Lennon, walt whitman, imaginary, emily dickinson, thinking out loud

  Walt Whitman would have been a perfect blogger. Didn’t he revise and reprint Leaves of Grass dozens of times? What would instant posting and feedback have done to that thought process? “I sing the body electric,” all right. After re...

• Jaye and I discuss e-books and real books

  Posted on Saturday March 14th, 2009 at 00:55 in discuss

  In which Jaye and I discuss book formats, reading too much, portability, pages, and reading whims.  Also, women’s basketball.   Conversation basically verbatim from our online chatting, when we both should have been asleep ages ago. Jaye: ac...

• Curious About Book Clubs

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 17:44 in review, book, Mystery, discuss, club, freelance book reviewer

  Although I’ve spent much of my childhood and adulthood with my nose in a book, taken classes, written papers, and had entire friendships consist mostly of throwing books back and forth, I’ve never taken part in a book club. (I think IR...

• The Sunday Salon

  Posted on Sunday February 8th, 2009 at 08:17 in book, Romance, reading, book review, discuss, meme, historical fiction, french revolution, sunday salon, star-ledger, the literary world, pink carnation

  I’ve heard about the Sunday Salon, and seen it on a number of my fellow book bloggers’ pages.  Decided to give it a try.  If nothing else, it gives me an excuse to commit to going back to bed with a book on Sunday mornings.  Which is g...

• Friday Finds 1/16

  Posted on Friday January 16th, 2009 at 08:00 in discuss, biography, memoir, ya, rutgers, chasing, friday finds, vermeer, book list, c. vivian stringer, moaveni, westing game

  ShouldBeReading hosts Friday Finds. Two from the library.  I guess I found these a while ago, and put them on my hold list at the library. “Chasing Vermeer”- Blue Ballett.  Illustrated by Brett Helquist.  Since I decided to seek it out...

• That Awful Book You Just Can’t Put Down

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 00:31 in book, book review, discuss, davinci code, hated

  Does this happen to anyone else? You’re reading a book, disliking it, maybe mocking the characters in your head a little.  You’re rolling your eyes at some of the plot elements, or even a bit of clunky language, or maybe topics that aren...

• Worst Book Ever

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 00:19 in review, book, bad, discuss, criticism, musing, disliked, hated, thinking out loud, twilight, book blogger

  So what is the worst book ever? Even while I loathe a book, most of the time, I understand that it just wasn’t a good fit for me.  Or I can find, at least some aspect of the story or writing craft to like.  Book reviewing has been a real gift...

• Writing in Books: Enhancing or Vandalizing?

  Posted on Saturday December 27th, 2008 at 14:45 in discuss, notes, marginalia, margin, scribble, thinking out loud, writing in books, reading for fun, deface, notes in margins, write in books

  Although I’m a dog-earer, a page-marker, and a spine-breaker, much to the dismay of those who like their books pristine (My Minnesotan Friend, for example) I’m faintly disturbed by the idea of writing in a book in pen. Pencil, I can do,...